This short film shows what it is like to stay in a youth hostel (including the chores involved), as well as the activities that can be done on a hostelling holiday, such as pony trekking, boat rides, cycling and museum visits. The film primarily follows the holidays of different people, including two young men, two young women, a man and a woman, and also a family. British Board of Film Censors initial title card is shown. Title card - Review 34th Year No.6 Title card - Hostelling...

This short film shows what it is like to stay in a youth hostel (including the chores involved), as well as the activities that can be done on a hostelling holiday, such as pony trekking, boat rides, cycling and museum visits. The film primarily follows the holidays of different people, including two young men, two young women, a man and a woman, and also a family. British Board of Film Censors initial title card is shown. Title card - Review 34th Year No.6 Title card - Hostelling Holidays The YHA logo is shown on a wall outside a youth hostel. Hostellers are seen getting up out of their bunk beds in hostel dormitories. Hostellers are shown using the communal men’s bathroom to wash and shave. The YHA logo is shown on a wall on the side of a youth hostel. Younger hostellers are shown leaving a dormitory in their pyjamas and entering the bathroom with a wash bag. Another youth hostel with the logo on the side of the building is shown. One hosteller in her nightgown is shown shaking another hosteller awake, who is laid in the top bunk of a dormitory. Another youth hostel is shown. Hostellers are shown getting dressed in their dormitory. Hostellers are then shown making use of the kitchen facilities in the hostel. A young man and young woman kiss after greeting each other across the room. Other hostellers are shown eating breakfast in the dining rooms of the hostels. One of the residents is shown peeling potatoes outside the hostel; another is sawing logs, whilst another sweeps the steps. Others are shown sweeping inside the hostel, cleaning tables and washing windows. Some of the hostellers are shown packing up their belongings in a dormitory. The warden is shown stamping their YHA membership books and handing over some paper bags. A montage shows hostellers leaving various England hostels with their backpack of belongings with them. Two hostellers (a couple) reach a sign which reads ‘Parsley Hay - cycle hire’. Two other young boy hostellers reach Ludlow Castle. A family of hostellers in a car drive through a gate which reads ‘Llangothlen Pony Trekking Riding Centre’. The two hostellers (couple) walk some bikes onto a track and then cycle away on the bikes. The family of hostellers are shown pony trekking. Two women hostellers are shown walking on the moors above a coast. The two boy hostellers at Ludlow castle are shown in the castle walls looking down at the castle courtyard. The cyclists stop and have some food on the grass. The family of hostellers are shown having food at a local cafe. The two younger boys are shown eating food on the back seat of a bus. The couple are shown putting socks on and getting ready to go again. The family of hostellers are shown getting on to a small boat. The two women hostellers are also shown getting into a small dinghy. The couple are hiking through the countryside and looking at directions on a map. The two younger boys are shown walking around Blists Hill Victorian Town museum. The two women hostellers are shown switching seats in their dinghy so that they can take it in turns to row. The two younger boys continue to look at the industrial technology in the Blists Hill Victorian Town museum. The couple continue to walk through the countryside. The family are shown enjoying a boat ride with other people; it is being pulled along the canal attached to a horse on the track next to it. The two women continue rowing in their boat. The two younger boys continue exploring the museum. The family continue enjoying a trip down the canal on a boat. The two women continue their trip rowing on a dinghy on the coast. The couple are shown entering a hostel, where they take off their shoes. The two younger boys are shown walking into the grounds of a hostel. The couple hand over their membership books to the warden at the reception desk of the hostel, along with their money for the stay. The two women are shown reaching the shoreline in the dinghy on the coast, where they prepare to get out. The two younger boys hand over money for their stay at a hostel to the warden at a reception desk. The couple make their way upstairs in the hostel they are staying at. Another hosteller passes them on the stairs. The two younger boys are shown taking their coats off and putting down their belongings in the dormitory of a hostel. The family of hostellers pull up to another hostel in their car. The two women hostellers are shown walking back down to a coastal hostel. The couple are shown walking through the hostel. The younger boys are shown setting the table at a hostel. The couple are shown together in the kitchen of a hostel, enjoying trying some of the food they are cooking in a pan. All of the hostellers are shown enjoying food in the dining rooms of each hostel they are staying at. The couple are shown leaving the hostel they are staying at through the front door. The family are shown playing a ball game on the grounds of the hostel they are staying at. The younger boys are shown sat on a wall chatting outside one of the hostels they are staying at. One of them has a pad of paper. The couple are shown going for a stroll in the countryside. The two women are shown having fun on a tire swing outside the hostel they are staying at. The family of hostellers are shown getting the children ready for bed in the dormitories. In a common room, the younger boys are playing on a pool table. The parents of the family are sitting in chairs reading newspapers. The two women are sitting outside a hostel beside a campfire, chatting with another hosteller. The couple are shown looking over a map with an older man sitting at the table with them. The younger boys are shown entering their dormitory, about to go to bed. The two women get up from the campfire, ready to head inside for the night. The couple go upstairs, kiss goodnight and go to their dormitories. The parents of the family are shown heading inside and closing a door. End credits - ‘Made in collaboration with the Youth Hostels Association St. Albans’.